Horrible bosses? We’ve all had ’em. But be thankful you haven’t worked for one of these members of the Bad Boss Hall of Fame. As “Horrible Bosses 2” hits theaters, take a look at eight of the most reviled managers of all time:

Scott Rudin

Scott RudinAdam Nemser/Startraksphoto.com

The theater and film producer was named Gawker’s “Worst Boss of 2007” for his (alleged) habit of screaming and throwing things at staff, firing people randomly (sometimes everyone at once — the gang simply crosses the street to have a cup of coffee and waits to be rehired) and keeping everyone on orders to be reachable 24/7 — meaning no one in his employ is allowed to ride the subway. But, hey, it’s showbiz — what did you expect?

James Cameron

James CameronEd Jones/AFP/GettyImages

The “Avatar” director lives by the maxim, “Firing is too merciful,” instead driving underlings crazy with “long hours, hard tasks and harsh criticism” — so says Harvard Business Review. Kate Winslet reportedly said she’d never work for him again after she nearly drowned and chipped an elbow while filming “Titanic,” and legend has it that he used a nail gun to attach staffers’ cellphones to the wall while filming “Avatar,” according to the Independent. “I have my bad days, and on my best days I’m no Ron Howard,” he confessed.

Donald Sterling

Donald SterlingAP Photo/Danny Moloshok

The LA Clippers owner made a fortune as an LA slumlord (according to a lawsuit, he allegedly said that “black tenants smell and attract vermin,” and that Latinos “smoke, drink and just hang around the building”). Former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor sued him for wrongful termination and discrimination on the basis of age and race (the race accusation was eventually dropped, and Sterling won the suit in 2011). He was also sued multiple times for sexual harassment (though he won or settled at least two of the cases), reportedly heckled his own team and denied his own coach’s request to cover out-of-network costs to treat prostate cancer. Then, in 2014, he became notorious for ranting racist garbage to his mistress. Today he is the ex-owner of the team, having been forced to sell to former Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer.

Sheila Jackson Lee

Sheila Jackson LeeAP Photo/CBS News, Mary F. Calvert

Dubbed the “meanest member of Congress” in 2014 by Washingtonian magazine, the Queens-born US representative from Texas burned through 11 chiefs of staff in as many years by being “the boss from hell,” in the words of the Daily Caller. One proud staffer brought her small-town parents to see the Democratic congresswoman’s offices, only to be accosted by the raging boss herself, who burst out of her office screaming, “Don’t be a moron, you foolish girl,” according to the Caller.

Robert Kelly

Robert KellyAP Photo/Lawrence Jackson

The Bank of New York Mellon’s ex-CEO was described in Fortune magazine as “off-putting, arrogant, and sometimes rude” — and that’s a friend talking! Kelly, according to Fortune, was unceremoniously dumped by the company’s board after publicly angling for a job with rival Bank of America, complained to the press that his famously frugal company’s headquarters lacked style and should be replaced by gleaming ultramodern digs, snarked about his general counsel because she took over some of his duties, and shocked the board of directors by telling them he was going to fire 1,500 people. Today he is chairman of the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp.

Paula Deen

Paula DeenAP Photo/Carlo Allegri

Sued by a longtime employee for sexual harassment and racial discrimination, obesity’s Southern-fried guardian angel Deen later closed up her Georgia restaurant without telling the employees beforehand, and they found themselves collecting severance in the parking lot. “I’ve been water works all a.m.,” wrote one employee on Facebook. “I’ve worked there since I was 16. I woke up this a.m. to no job and no forewarning.” (Deen later settled the lawsuit, the details of which were not disclosed.)

Charlie Ergen

Charlie ErgenReuters/Robert Galbraith

The co-founder of Dish Network has created a culture of horror in which worn-out employees complaining about huge amounts of overtime are told simply to “leave,” where arriving minutes late means you get flagged with a “badge report,” and where you’re expected to share rooms on the road and reimburse the company if you ever tip more than 15 percent, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The website 24/7 Wall Street dubbed Dish America the “worst company to work for” based on feedback from worker bees. Former executive Barbara Roehrig said Ergen sometimes would threaten to walk into a meeting and fire a group of employees he called the “craziness pack.” “We’ve all been in the line of Charlie’s ranting,” Roehrig told the Hollywood Reporter, saying that middle managers are afraid to accept promotions because the upper echelons are so toxic. Then again, the boss himself has been steeped in meltdowns since he was a kid — his father, a physicist, is credited with coming up with the phrase “China syndrome.”